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newsobserver.com | Local & State “An argument with a creationist is virtually impossible,” he said. “They pick and choose whatever piece of data they like.” (via Pharyngula)
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Nobel Prize novelist Bellow dies
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Nobel Prize novelist Bellow dies: American novelist Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, has died, aged 89.
His poetry emphasized the personal and the lyric
His poetry emphasized the personal and the lyric: Robert Creeley, one of America’s most celebrated poets and for more than half a century a leading figure in the literary avant-garde, died Wednesday in Odessa, Texas, of complications from lung disease. He was 78.
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. In 1992 National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, “I didn’t do anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.” Uh, right.
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